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GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE

To amend the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961, so as to increase the number of deputy ministers that may be appointed under section 21; to make special provision for the representation of Walvis Bay in the House of Assembly and in the Provincial Council of the Cape of Good Hope; to render service with any institution, council or body contemplated in section 84 (1) (f) a disability for membership of the House of Assembly or a provincial council; to further regulate the exemption from the provisions of section 55 (d) on the grounds of membership of certain bodies; to provide that an elected member of the executive committee of a province may be removed from office by the provincial council; and to remove the disability for membership of the President’s Council relating to an office of profit under the Republic; to empower the State President to repeal section 40A, by which the said special provision is made; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

(English text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 23 June 1982.)

E IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―

1. Section 21 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

2. The principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after section 40 of the following section: